Free Speech
The good news on academic free speech
The Office for Students has offered some cause for optimism
Will Starmer suppress dissent?
The riots should not be an excuse for a broader assault on civil liberties
Death by red tape
“Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of institutionalised censoriousness
Social media platforms are still stifling debate
Platforms like Instagram and Eventbrite should learn that a belief in biological sex does not amount to “hate”
The football world’s war on free speech
Football authorities are attempting to insist on what political values players and supporters should represent
How I came to live in Looking-Glass House
How it feels to be exiled over political disagreement
The EU is coming for “hate speech”
The European Commission is considering including “hate speech” in a list of serious bloc-wide crimes
Gender and Josef K.
How it feels to be accused of crimes that don’t exist
The police should stop wasting time on tweets
How have we reached the point where expressing your opinion can consign you to a Kafkaesque nightmare?
Fined over facts?
Financial censorship is not the right way to confront the AfD
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
